John McIntyre (hurler)

John McIntyre, born in 1961 in Lorrha, County Tipperary, is an Irish hurling manager and former player and the former manager of the Galway senior hurling team. An effective centre-back, he enjoyed a relatively successful playing career at club level with Lorrha-Dorrha and at inter-county level with Tipperary, of whose team he was a member for a number of seasons in the 1980s, when Tipperary were going through an uncharacteristic drought in championship success. After his playing days he gained notoriety as a manager and coach at all levels. A successful stint as coach alongside manager Billy McGrath of the Clarinbridge club team in Galway followed his first term as manager of the Offaly senior hurling team in the 1990s, he returned as Offaly manager almost a decade later and was appointed manager of the Galway senior hurling team in November 2008.